Adelaide Procter

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Standard Name: Procter, Adelaide
Birth Name: Adelaide Anne Procter
Indexed Name: Adelaide Procter
Pseudonym: Mary Berwick
AP 's poetry, which appeared almost exclusively in Household Words and All the Year Round, was among the most popular of the Victorian era. An active mid-Victorian feminist, she was a member of the Langham Place Circle and supporter of the Victoria Press , for which she edited the showcase annual The Victoria Regia as well as contributing journalism and poetry to the English Woman's Journal. A convert to Catholicism, much of whose oeuvre is religious poetry (at times put to the service of social protest), she was allegedly the favourite writer of the Queen and certainly one of the best-selling poets of her day. She died young, leaving only three short collections of her poetry.

Connections

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Travel Charlotte Brontë
CB again visited the Smith s in London, where she met a number of young female writers, among others Anne Thackeray and Adelaide Procter .
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press.
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Textual Production Agnes Giberne
An edition published by James Nisbet ten years later omits or from the title and spells Priorsthorpe with an e.
The first version of the title is that given in the British Library Catalogue...
Textual Production Charles Dickens
Textual Production Anna Mary Howitt
Another biographical project, never fulfilled, grew out of Christina Rossetti 's idea that AMH would be a better person than herself to write a study of Adelaide Procter .
Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press.
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Textual Production Christina Rossetti
In 1856, CR published an historical short story, The Lost Titian, in The Crayon, a small magazine published in New York.
Smulders, Sharon. Christina Rossetti Revisited. Twayne.
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Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking.
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. She also wrote some non-fiction on Italian writers (including...
Textual Features Elizabeth Barrett Browning
It contained the contents of the previous volumes, a new translation of Æschylus 's Prometheus Bound, The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point, and further sonnets. These including sonnets on her sisters, her dog...
Textual Features Bessie Rayner Parkes
This volume contains almost seventy poems, ten of which are written and addressed to BRP 's contemporaries. Much of her writing is self-deprecating and she consistently praises other writers as being superior to herself. In...
Reception Ella Wheeler Wilcox
During a visit to England EWW was honoured by her London publishers, Gay and Hancock , with a luncheon of sixty men—publishers, editors, bookmen of all kinds, newspaper men, and some invited guests from other...
Publishing Anna Mary Howitt
During her time in Munich and her briefer time in Oberammergau, AMH wrote articles which were published in the Ladies' Companion, the Athenæum, and Household Words. Her description of the Oberammergau passion...
Author summary Matilda Hays
Matilda Hays was a novelist, translator of George Sand , editor, and contributor to periodicals. Her work spanned many genres and a variety of topics related to women's work and opportunities. One of her two...
politics Jessie Boucherett
In 1859, along with Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and Adelaide Procter , JB launched the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women (SPEW). They held their first meeting on 19 June 1859.
Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
“Obituary: Miss Emilia Jessie Boucherett”. Times, p. 8.
Though all...
politics Bessie Rayner Parkes
Besides editing the English Woman's Journal, BRP collaborated in 1859 with other group members Emily Faithfull and Adelaide Procter to found the Victoria Press (established on 25 March 1860).
Levine, Philippa. Feminist Lives in Victorian England: Private Roles and Public Commitment. Basil Blackwell.
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Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research.
240: 187
She also...
politics Emily Faithfull
By 1859 The English Woman's Journal was felt to be no longer adequate on its own for promoting women's work, and Jessie Boucherett suggested the creation of a society which would deal specifically with this...
politics Anna Brownell Jameson
ABJ became a mentor to a group of young reformers and educational pioneers, including Adelaide Procter , Emily Faithfull , and Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon . She sometimes provided meeting space for the group, both...
Occupation Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
Jessie Boucherett and Adelaide Procter served as the honorary secretaries, Sarah Lewin and Emily Crow acted as executive secretaries, and BLSB , Bessie Rayner Parkes, and Emily Faithfull served on the advisory committee.

Timeline

March 1858: The English Woman's Journal, a monthly magazine...

Women writers item

March 1858

The English Woman's Journal, a monthly magazine on the theory and practice of organised feminism, began publication in London, with financial support from Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and others, under the editorship of...

7 July 1859: The first meeting of the Society for Promoting...

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7 July 1859

The first meeting of the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women was held in London; founding members included Anna Jameson , Emily Faithfull , Jessie Boucherett , Adelaide Procter , Bessie Rayner Parkes , Isa Craig , and Sarah Lewin .

Late 1859: The offices of The English Woman's Journal...

Women writers item

Late 1859

The offices of The English Woman's Journal moved from Cavendish Square to 19 Langham Place, where a ladies' club was also planned.

1861: A company in Salem, Massachusetts, issued...

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1861

A company in Salem, Massachusetts, issued what seems to be the earliest version of a game called Authors, whose object was to collect sets of cards bearing the names of writers and the...

August 1864: The English Woman's Journal, a practical...

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August 1864

The English Woman's Journal, a practical and theoretical source of organized feminism from London, merged into The Alexandra Magazine and English Woman's Journal.

Texts

Procter, Adelaide, and Richard Doyle. A Chaplet of Verses. Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862.
Procter, Adelaide. “A Woman’s Question”. Household Words, Vol.
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, No. 411, p. 179.
Dickens, Charles et al. “An Introduction”. Legends and Lyrics, Fifteenth, George Bell and Sons, 1874, p. xi - xxxi.
Ogle, Anne. “An Old Woman’s Story”. The Victoria Regia, edited by Adelaide Procter, Emily Faithfull, 1861, pp. 326-32.
Procter, Adelaide. Legends and Lyrics. Bell and Daldy, 1858.
Procter, Adelaide. Legends and Lyrics. Bell and Daldy, 1861.
Procter, Adelaide et al. Legends and Lyrics. Bell and Daldy, 1866.
Procter, Adelaide, and Charles Dickens. Legends and Lyrics. George Bell and Sons, 1874.
Faithfull, Emily. “Preface”. The Victoria Regia, edited by Adelaide Procter, Emily Faithfull, 1861, p. v - viii.
Procter, Adelaide, and Charles Dickens. The Poems of Adelaide A. Procter. James R. Osgood, 1873.
Faithfull, Emily. The Victoria Regia. Editor Procter, Adelaide, Emily Faithfull, 1861.